Charlotte Rampling Clarifies Controversial Diversity Remarks

January 22, 2016 7:15 PM PST

Academy Award-nominated actress Charlotte Rampling said her
comments that an Oscars' boycott is "racist to white people" were
misinterpreted. In a statement to CBS News' "Sunday Morning" on
Friday, Rampling said she wished every performance were given equal opportunity
for consideration.

All this year's acting nominees are white. Rampling, 69,
previously told France's Europe 1 radio Friday that, while it's impossible to
know for sure, "maybe the black actors didn't deserve to be in the final
stretch." She told "Sunday Morning" that "I regret that my
comments could have been misinterpreted."

Asked if there should be quotas — not a suggestion made by most
boycott supporters — Rampling said we live "in countries nowadays where
everyone is more or less accepted," but there would always be problems
with people being judged "not handsome enough," ''too black" or "too
white."